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Monday, March 31, 2014

2194 Brain Backup

A couple of body observations
today. They both have to do with areas above the waist. Why is it, by the way,
that observations about good things, as in more thoughtful, are above the waist
and bad things, either risqué or unfair, are below the belt?

Anyhow, first thing. I had an
advertising agency call recently wanting to place an order on the radio. The
agent who called also asked me if any stations in the area played Rush Limbaugh.
I asked why. She said she was representing a chiropractor who wanted to place
the ads. And that her agency experience was that generally, being an advertiser
on the Rush Limbaugh program was a good buy for chiropractors. I asked why
again and she had no clue. It just was.

Hmm. Maybe because he gets people's
back up? Or bent out of shape against things they dislike? Or some people think
he's a pain in the neck?

The second above the waist
observation is 3-D printing. The newest computer marvel. 3-D printers can make
everything from custom machine parts to plastic pistols. Recently someone
actually made Oreo cookies.

It's all about programming in a
precise three-dimensional image of a thing, then loading the right raw
materials into your special printer. Voila, Star Trek Replicator object.

So. I was thinking. It's kind of
like what a CAT scan does when it makes an image of your brain. Little
microscopic slices of pictures they reconstruct into a 3-D representation. Can
they reverse that and use the precise 3-D image to construct an exact facsimile
of your brain?